"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."--Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise, 1670. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Man with Gold Pencil Prior-Hamblen School

General View of the Acropolis at Sunset Henry Bacon

Dunrobin Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Cucumbertree (Magnolia acuminata) Mary Vaux Walcott

Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to t... William Page

A Stag and Two Does Albert Pinkham Ryder